Professor Francoise Le Saux
Emeritus Professor, French
Areas of interest
My current research remains focused on cross-cultural exchange in the medieval British Isles, with a special interest in the interface between the Arthurian and epic traditions.
Research centres and groups
Professional bodies/affiliations
I am an active member of the British Branches of the International Arthurian Society and of Société Rencesvals, of which I was once President. I am also a member of the International Reynard Society, the Medieval Chronicle Society and the Anglo-Norman Texts Society.
Publications
- Le Saux, F. , eds. (2020) Proverbes et expressions proverbiales dans le roman de Rou de Wace. In: Hue, D. , Laurent, F. , Lebossé, M. , Mathey-Maille, L. , (eds.) Editions Paradigme , Orleans. pp. 73-86. ISBN: 97828687851138
- Le Saux, F. (2020) Geoffrey of Monmouth's de gestis Britonum and twelfth-century romance. In: Smith, J. and Henley, G. , (eds.) A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth. Brill's Companions to European History , 22. Brill , Leiden and Boston. pp. 235-256. ISBN: 978900440528 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004410398_010
- Le Saux, F. (2020) Les tombeaux royaux de l'historia Regum Britanniae. In: Girbea, C. , Voicu, I. , Anton, C. , (eds.) Miroirs arthuriens entre images et mirages: Actes du XXIVe Congrès de la Société Internationale Arthurienne, Bucarest, 20-27 juillet 2014. Brepols pp. 299-310. ISBN: 9782503579917 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CSM-EB.5.117128
- Le Saux, F. (2019) The Arthurian legend in modern Breton culture. In: Lloyd-Morgan, C. and Poppe, E. , (eds.) Arthur in the Celtic Languages. Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages University of Wales Press (IX). , Cardiff. pp. 320-335. ISBN: 9781786833
- Le Saux, F. (2017) La femme, le chien et le clerc. Reinardus , 28 (1). pp. 130-141. ISSN: 1569-9951 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rein.28.09les
- Le Saux, F. (2016) Les dangers de la guerre. L'image du guerrier dans le Brut de La3amon. In: Girbea, C. , (eds.) Armes et jeux militaires dans l'imaginaire, xiie - xve siecles. Classiques Garnier , Paris. pp. 315-337. ISBN: 9782812460838
- Le Saux, F. (2015) La Grande Bretagne, patrie des sciences? La representation des technologies scientifiques dans Geoffroy de Monmouth et Layamon. In: Tetrel, H. and Veysseyre, G. , (eds.) L'Historia regum Britannie et les «Bruts» en Europe. Rencontres 106, Serie Civilisation medievale , 12. Classiques Garnier , Paris. pp. 157-178. ISBN: 9782812433184
- Le Saux, F. (2014) Richard le Scandinave? Héroïsme et métissage culturel dans le Roman de Rou de Wace. Annales de Normandie , 64.1 pp. 146-160. ISSN: 0003-4134
- Le Saux, F. (2012) Prowess, the Nine Worthies and the Hundred Years War: the Prologues to the Chroniques of Jean Froissart and Enguerrand de Monstrelet. In: Ailes, M. , Cobby, A. , Noble, P. , (eds.) The Chanson de geste and its reception. Essays presented to Philip E. Bennett by members of the Societe Rencesvals. British Rencesvals Publications , Edinburgh. pp. 75-94. ISBN: 9780951979174
- Le Saux, F. (2011) Temps, memoire et monstres: le monde arthurien de Culhwch et Olwen. In: Girbea, C. , Popescu, A. , Voicu, M. , (eds.) Temps et memoire dans la litterature arthurienne. Medievalia Editura universatii bucuresti (2). , Bucarest. pp. 282-289.
- Le Saux, F. (2011) Playing the fool: eccentric behaviour and political acumen in Wace’s 'Roman de Rou'. In: Perry, L. and Schwarz, A. , (eds.) Behaving like fools : voice, gesture, and laughter in texts, manuscripts, and early books. International Medieval Research Brepols (17). , Turnhout. ISBN: 9782503531571
- Le Saux, F. (2011) Quand Robert le Diable passe Outre-Manche: Sir Gowther. In: Mathey-Maille, L. and Legros, H. , (eds.) La Légende de Robert le Diable du Moyen Age au XXe siècle . Medievalia Paradigme (75). , Orléans. pp. 293-305. ISBN: 9782868782885
- Le Saux, F. (2011) La Conception Nostre Dame de Wace: oeuvre de propagande?. In: Thelamon, F. , (eds.) Marie et la Fete aux Normands. Images, poesie, devotions . Rouen: Publications des Universites de Rouen et du Havre, 2011 pp. 99-106. ISBN: 9782877755344
- Le Saux, F. (2009) La Faune marine dans le voyage de Saint brendan anglo-normand. Reinardus , 21 (1). pp. 115-123. ISSN: 1569-9951 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rein.21.08les
- Leglu, C. and Le Saux, F. (2009) Reading medieval studies. Reading Medieval Studies , 35. University of Reading , Reading.
- Le Saux, F. (2008) "Gloser La Lettre": identity and power in the poetry of Marie de France. In: Kennedy, R. and Meecham-Jones, S. , (eds.) Writers of the reign of Henry II: twelve essays . The New Middle Ages Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. pp. 205-219. ISBN: 9781403966445
- Le Saux, F. (2008) Guillaume l'illegitime? La batardise de Guillaume de Conquerant dans le Roman de Rou de Wace. In: Legros, H. , (eds.) Guillaume le Conquérant face aux défis. Paradigme , Orleans. pp. 149-163. ISBN: 9782868782731
- Le Saux, F. , eds. (2008) "La geste des trois fils Guillaume?" Henry I in Wace's Roman de Rou. In: Ailes, M. , Le Saux, F. , Lawrence, A. , (eds.) Reading Medieval Studies , XXXIV pp. 191-207. ISSN: 0950-3129 ISBN: 9780704998919
- Le Saux, F. (2006) Wace as hagiographer. In: Burgess, G. and Weiss, J. , (eds.) Maistre Wace - a celebration. Jersiase , St. Helier. pp. 139-148. ISBN: 090189740 x
- Le Saux, F. (2005) A companion to Wace. Boydell & Brewer , Woodbridge. pp 314. ISBN: 9781843840435
- Le Saux, F. (2005) The reception of the matter of Britain in thirteenth-century England: a study of some Anglo-Norman manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut. In: Prestwich, M. , Britnell, R. , Frame, R. , (eds.) Thirteenth century England X: proceedings of the Durham conference, 2003. Boydell and Brewer , Woodbridge. pp. 131-146. ISBN: 9781843831228
- Le Saux, F. (2004) On capitalization in some early manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut . In: Wheeler, B. , (eds.) Arthurian studies in honour of P.J.C. Field. Arthurian Studies D.S. Brewer , Woodbridge. pp. 29-47. ISBN: 9781843840138
- Le Saux, F. (2004) War and knighthood in Christine de Pizan's 'Livre des fait d'armes et de chevallerie'. In: Le Saux, F. , Saunders, C. , Thomas, N. , (eds.) Writing war: medieval literary responses to warfare. D.S. Brewer , Woodbridge. pp. 93-105. ISBN: 9780859918435
- Le Saux, F. , Saunders, C. , Thomas, N. (2004) Writing war: medieval literary responses to warfare. D.S. Brewer , Woodbridge. pp 246. ISBN: 9780859918435
- Le Saux, F. (2003) Un monde sans fenêtres? De l’Historia Regum Britanniae au Brut de Layamon. In: Connohie-Bourgne, C. , (eds.) Par la fenestre: études de littérature et de civilisation médiévales. Publications de l'Université de Provence , Provence. pp. 295-305. ISBN: 9782853995291
- Hardman, P. , Le Saux, F. , Noble, P. , Thomas, N. , eds. (2003) The growth of the Tristan and Iseut legend in Wales, England, France and Germany. Studies in medieval literature Edwin Mellen Press (24). , Lampeter. pp 214. ISBN: 9780773468351